I gave up on griping about snow on high cable channels because the cable company did not have the will to do anything about it. So, if I see lines or other interference patterns on broadcast signal, am I supposed to bring this to FCC's attention?
Unless intellectual property assets are better protected, we will soon see information technology firms resorting to draconian measures even worse than outsourcing.
Telecommuting is great for workers but it's a wash for business unless workers put in extra time at home. Workers don't have to waste time sitting in traffic. They don't endure the stress of the commute every day or the expense. For the community, less cars on the road means less traffic congestion and less air pollution. But employers don't reap so many benefits. Many don't trust their employees to work. They worry the employee will sleep or work on home improvement projects rather than work. So many employers set it up to be used as a suppliment rather than a substitute so the worker can do overtime from home. Add to that the vulnerability of such work to offshoring and it isn't hard to understand why telecommuting hasn't taken off.
They bought their way into the position they're in today by paying off Bush and that Michael Powell. Is anyone surprised that they whine about XM?
In NC, CC dominates the FM radio dial. Other than WCPE and college stations, there's CC. How bad do they suck? So bad that in the past couple of years, lots of wonderful Pioneer and Marantz Super Receiver of the 70s are being sold dirt cheap.
Michael Powell is at the center of it all. This is crooked politics at it's worst. I hope a terrible fate befalls him such that he is unable to enjoy his ill-gotten gains. Vote these crooked ass Republicans out this November!
Yeah. The sysadmin where I worked had set up a bunch of the workstations to run that stuff. Trouble is, the nightly builds were falling over. People were pissed.
Conservative columnist Paul Craig Roberts writes in his March 10th column, 03/10/04 - Outsourcing: A New Occupational Hazard, "High school and college students... are abandoning occupations that can be outsourced.... Presidents and deans of engineering schools are expressing concerns that engineering education has no future in America."
Engineering school is hard. Few are likely to chose a curriculum so difficult unless there's some propect for making a good living. Young people can see ample evidence that engineering careers are short lived. Enrollments have declined considerably in recent years. If this trend continues, will there be much demand for engineering education in the US?
What we need are a few cats who don't give a fuck, and just embarrass the hell out of the upper level management by slapping them around in front of everyone else. Give them the, "Fuck you, I'm not training any one" rant, and then let the beatings begin.
I'm not talking about any type of slapping around, I mean hitting them hard in the nose first, than putting them in a head lock and slapping them around, reminding them that tomorrow they will be the guy who got his ass beat in front of the indispensable working masses.
It takes a special person to inflict this type of embarrassment in the meanest way possible. To inflict enough personal disgrace that the people who is humiliated just isn't right anymore; their lives are completely fucked forever.
I must admit the notion of going trailerpark on some crooked businessman has some primal appeal. I'm sure this idea has crossed the minds of many of these bosses, since many of them have pineapple faced body guards. People who have bodyguards are people who need bodyguards. That being said, I'm sure there are some tech workers in the workaday world who can pack quite a wallup. Yessir.
This started with a story about college kids abandoning CS and engineering because fresh grads aren't getting jobs. There's nothing new about this. Enrollments have always tracked the market demand. There's not much demand now; companies aren't hiring. Yeah yeah, study something you love. There are lots of interesting things to do but few that companies are willing to pay well for. It's not about skills. It's not about broken schools. Somehow, every offshoring discussion turns into thread upon thread about skills and brokens schools. It's about money $$$. There are vast pools of educated low paid people in countries with low cost of living. Technology business is shifting to those countries. It's NOT because they are smarter or more highly skilled. It's because they are an order of magnitude cheaper. As these high paid jobs leave the US and poor people enter the US in droves, the US standard of living is going down faster than the Chinese or Indian standard of living is rising. Watch energy prices. That's a good barometer for the weakening dollar. The decline in the value of the dollar is a world vote of no confidence in the US economy. So, native US citizens are still saddled with the same debt, mortgages and cost of living but having to settle for menial wage jobs. This plus the decline in the dollar and ultimately, government entitlements will mean most formerly middle class persons will burn through their savings becoming working poor. America will descend to the level of a second then a third world country. Things are liable to get real ugly. You can think of the engineering schools as sort of a canary in a coal mine.
There's some naisty 'uns where I work. One guy never washes his hands after taking a crap. He just comes boundin' outta th' stall, right back to his office. I imagine a culture of his keyboard would be wigglin' with life in hours. Yessir.
How many companies these days are willing to drop money into some technology that may not turn a profit for many years?
There hasn't been much R in the past 20 years in the US and during the past few years, very little D. I once worked for RCA, where there was some R&D going on, even in the mid 80s. That quickly disappeared when GE bought them. At other companies I worked for, I saw some development work but little research. Now, most of that is gone.
Can the US remain a superpower without manufacturing things? without R&D? We're about to find out the answer to those questions.
Finally, it's been written in language the suits and bean counters can understand. They may not understand the details of how everything works, but they can count costs.
I wonder what the breakdown on monitor vs. CPU was. I'll bet the CRT was more than half. It would be interesting to see the numbers with a flat panel monitor substituted.
I doubt I'll be buying more CRTs. They're heavier, emit more heat and take up more desk space. Now that flat panel monitors are cheaper, I'm more inclined to get one.
This is a mixed economy with all sorts of government intervention being exerted by all sorts of goverments. Calling this free trade is wrong.
I came across a columnist with an unconventional view, Paul Craig Roberts. In his June 18, 2002 column, titled, Importing people, exporting jobs, he points out the following:
"It is a mistake to see the loss of jobs and income as the workings of free trade. The downward pressure on incomes does not result from an exchange of goods. Something different is occurring. Middle class incomes are being traded away in order to gain larger bonuses for top management, and politicians are pandering to the immigrant vote at the expense of lower income native-born citizens.
The longer this process continues, the more explosive it becomes, both socially and politically."
I don't think I can say it any better. Like Paul Craig Roberts, I believe the US is heading for 3rd world status.
In this age of Enron corporate malfeasance, prospective employees come under more scrutiny than ever before. Even 20 years ago, companies got to know a lot more about you than you got to know about them. It's called the golden rule; those who have the gold, make the rules. If an executive lies, cheats and steals, he advances and becomes rich. If you lie, you're toast. It ain't fair. It never was and it's getting worse.
So, what do you do? Write it up as succinctly as possible and hand them that when they ask or memorize it and say it to them. That way, you're telling it the same way to everyone and you're prepared for a tough interview question.
Powell is signing off on a huge hash generator. Oh yeah, it's certified not to interfere with lord knows what. Looks like a grid of long wire antennae to me.
"Apart from huge savings, it allows US companies to concentrate on their core competencies and the people (in the US) can move on to higher paying, more creative, more value generating jobs."
What higher paying, more creative, more value generating jobs?
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I gave up on griping about snow on high cable channels because the cable company did not have the will to do anything about it. So, if I see lines or other interference patterns on broadcast signal, am I supposed to bring this to FCC's attention?
I regularly see dumbasses smoking cigarettes while pumping gas. Nevermind static electricity. Lets get these idiots away from the pumps.
Unless intellectual property assets are better protected, we will soon see information technology firms resorting to draconian measures even worse than outsourcing.
Telecommuting is great for workers but it's a wash for business unless workers put in extra time at home. Workers don't have to waste time sitting in traffic. They don't endure the stress of the commute every day or the expense. For the community, less cars on the road means less traffic congestion and less air pollution. But employers don't reap so many benefits. Many don't trust their employees to work. They worry the employee will sleep or work on home improvement projects rather than work. So many employers set it up to be used as a suppliment rather than a substitute so the worker can do overtime from home. Add to that the vulnerability of such work to offshoring and it isn't hard to understand why telecommuting hasn't taken off.
One coworker said if he'd known engineering (you can substitute programming) was going to be like this, he would have studied proctology.
I've brought this up as "illegal" on a couple occasions, and even cited the state's labour laws, only to have it thrown back at me.
Yep. There's little point in piling on new laws if the old ones aren't being enforced.
They bought their way into the position they're in today by paying off Bush and that Michael Powell. Is anyone surprised that they whine about XM?
In NC, CC dominates the FM radio dial. Other than WCPE and college stations, there's CC. How bad do they suck? So bad that in the past couple of years, lots of wonderful Pioneer and Marantz Super Receiver of the 70s are being sold dirt cheap.
Michael Powell is at the center of it all. This is crooked politics at it's worst. I hope a terrible fate befalls him such that he is unable to enjoy his ill-gotten gains. Vote these crooked ass Republicans out this November!
Yeah. The sysadmin where I worked had set up a bunch of the workstations to run that stuff. Trouble is, the nightly builds were falling over. People were pissed.
Conservative columnist Paul Craig Roberts writes in his March 10th column, 03/10/04 - Outsourcing: A New Occupational Hazard, "High school and college students
Engineering school is hard. Few are likely to chose a curriculum so difficult unless there's some propect for making a good living. Young people can see ample evidence that engineering careers are short lived. Enrollments have declined considerably in recent years. If this trend continues, will there be much demand for engineering education in the US?
What we need are a few cats who don't give a fuck, and just embarrass the hell out of the upper level management by slapping them around in front of everyone else. Give them the, "Fuck you, I'm not training any one" rant, and then let the beatings begin.
I'm not talking about any type of slapping around, I mean hitting them hard in the nose first, than putting them in a head lock and slapping them around, reminding them that tomorrow they will be the guy who got his ass beat in front of the indispensable working masses.
It takes a special person to inflict this type of embarrassment in the meanest way possible. To inflict enough personal disgrace that the people who is humiliated just isn't right anymore; their lives are completely fucked forever.
I must admit the notion of going trailerpark on some crooked businessman has some primal appeal. I'm sure this idea has crossed the minds of many of these bosses, since many of them have pineapple faced body guards. People who have bodyguards are people who need bodyguards. That being said, I'm sure there are some tech workers in the workaday world who can pack quite a wallup. Yessir.
As I wrote earlier, the trick is to shine light on the cockroaches.
Well, 'em cockroaches ort ta be stawmped. Yessir.
KMart? is that some online shopping utility that comes with KDE?
Nah, you're thinking of Kroger.
They'll just raise game prices to offset the markdown on the console. It's like Gillette, Shick, et al. does with razors and razor blades.
This started with a story about college kids abandoning CS and engineering because fresh grads aren't getting jobs. There's nothing new about this. Enrollments have always tracked the market demand. There's not much demand now; companies aren't hiring. Yeah yeah, study something you love. There are lots of interesting things to do but few that companies are willing to pay well for. It's not about skills. It's not about broken schools. Somehow, every offshoring discussion turns into thread upon thread about skills and brokens schools. It's about money $$$. There are vast pools of educated low paid people in countries with low cost of living. Technology business is shifting to those countries. It's NOT because they are smarter or more highly skilled. It's because they are an order of magnitude cheaper. As these high paid jobs leave the US and poor people enter the US in droves, the US standard of living is going down faster than the Chinese or Indian standard of living is rising. Watch energy prices. That's a good barometer for the weakening dollar. The decline in the value of the dollar is a world vote of no confidence in the US economy. So, native US citizens are still saddled with the same debt, mortgages and cost of living but having to settle for menial wage jobs. This plus the decline in the dollar and ultimately, government entitlements will mean most formerly middle class persons will burn through their savings becoming working poor. America will descend to the level of a second then a third world country. Things are liable to get real ugly. You can think of the engineering schools as sort of a canary in a coal mine.
There's some naisty 'uns where I work. One guy never washes his hands after taking a crap. He just comes boundin' outta th' stall, right back to his office. I imagine a culture of his keyboard would be wigglin' with life in hours. Yessir.
... but not any more.
How many companies these days are willing to drop money into some technology that may not turn a profit for many years?
There hasn't been much R in the past 20 years in the US and during the past few years, very little D. I once worked for RCA, where there was some R&D going on, even in the mid 80s. That quickly disappeared when GE bought them. At other companies I worked for, I saw some development work but little research. Now, most of that is gone.
Can the US remain a superpower without manufacturing things? without R&D? We're about to find out the answer to those questions.
I have wasted an afternoon digging though this website.
Well, we won't. It has been slashdotted. Bummer. I like old phone stuff.
Finally, it's been written in language the suits and bean counters can understand. They may not understand the details of how everything works, but they can count costs.
I wonder what the breakdown on monitor vs. CPU was. I'll bet the CRT was more than half. It would be interesting to see the numbers with a flat panel monitor substituted.
I doubt I'll be buying more CRTs. They're heavier, emit more heat and take up more desk space. Now that flat panel monitors are cheaper, I'm more inclined to get one.
This is a mixed economy with all sorts of government intervention being exerted by all sorts of goverments. Calling this free trade is wrong.
I came across a columnist with an unconventional view, Paul Craig Roberts. In his June 18, 2002 column, titled, Importing people, exporting jobs, he points out the following:
"It is a mistake to see the loss of jobs and income as the workings of free trade. The downward pressure on incomes does not result from an exchange of goods. Something different is occurring. Middle class incomes are being traded away in order to gain larger bonuses for top management, and politicians are pandering to the immigrant vote at the expense of lower income native-born citizens.
The longer this process continues, the more explosive it becomes, both socially and politically."
I don't think I can say it any better. Like Paul Craig Roberts, I believe the US is heading for 3rd world status.
There are a quite a few used Tektronix 465 scopes going for about $200. Check newsgroups, eBay and go to some Hamfests.
Could cable and DSL face a new competitor in the broadband market in the near future?
Ham radio will face a new competitor called broadband noise once Earthstink cranks up these hash generators.
In this age of Enron corporate malfeasance, prospective employees come under more scrutiny than ever before. Even 20 years ago, companies got to know a lot more about you than you got to know about them. It's called the golden rule; those who have the gold, make the rules. If an executive lies, cheats and steals, he advances and becomes rich. If you lie, you're toast. It ain't fair. It never was and it's getting worse.
So, what do you do? Write it up as succinctly as possible and hand them that when they ask or memorize it and say it to them. That way, you're telling it the same way to everyone and you're prepared for a tough interview question.
Powell is signing off on a huge hash generator. Oh yeah, it's certified not to interfere with lord knows what. Looks like a grid of long wire antennae to me.
"Apart from huge savings, it allows US companies to concentrate on their core competencies and the people (in the US) can move on to higher paying, more creative, more value generating jobs."
What higher paying, more creative, more value generating jobs?